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How To Give Life To An Object With Basic 2D Tracking

How To Give Life To An Object With Basic 2D Tracking

on Oct 9th 2012 with 33 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Requirements: Just After Effects
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Run Time: 9:31 min

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This entry is part 2 of 12 in the The Complete Introduction to Motion Trackers Session
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This is a tutorial explaining basics about tracking, dynamic links and expressions. You will learn to give life to an object with simple After Effects 2D tracking.

Tutorial

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File size: 69.2 MB

Also see: Put Your Face Onto An Inanimate Object

 
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I'm a 21 year old student of 3D, Visual Effects and Motion Design in Paris even though I already do have a degree in graphic design. I like making videos with shoestring. :)  

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  • http://www.vfxrider.com Chandan Kumar

    Concept is amazing! At some points, tracking was going off. Otherwise fantastic!

  • conna

    Thanx for sharing Emilie…
    Your tut was quick,explanatory and interesting…and your english is fine.
    Keep up the good work.

  • http://guzforster.com Guz

    Emilie, very good tutorial! I didnt understand what the [0,-70] at the end of the expression does…

    • http://www.behance.net/EmilieNicolas Emilie
      Author

      hi,
      In fact (0, -70) are the coordinates of the clone area. We want it to be lower in Y, so we put down to -70 for Y. I don’t know if it’s clear, it’s hard to explain in english ^^

  • Michael

    Good tutorial, Like the concept. I was not a fan of the tracking, it was constantly slipping and sliding, I would have liked to seen it PINNED down 100% especially when you’re working with a simple object and a simple track.

  • Romain

    Your tutorial is so nice.

    I love your accent.

    Keep on Emilie, you’ll be a star soon ! :)

  • Dennis

    Excellent tutorial! I absolutely love listening to your voice don’t worry :)

  • http://4after.wordpress.com sandeman

    très joli tutorial, enfin une voix féminine!
    J’aime bien les animations minimalistes incrustées sur vidéo, la poésie du simple est toujours autant efficace.

  • Lennard Klaaysen

    Hi Emilie

    Your english is fine! Nice tut but can you also make tutorial how to make that the text goes with the toiletpaper as you show in the first scene of your final vid?! That would be amazing :D

    Lennard

    • http://www.greasypigstudios.com Arvin

      That was done for real, it wasn’t an effect. Too bad too, because that was much more effective than the actual tracking on the toilet paper roll.

  • http://www.zebravideo.ca video production toronto

    funny, why didn’t you try mocha for tracking . it’s easier and give more precise result

    • http://www.behance.net/EmilieNicolas Emilie
      Author

      In fact I also use Mocha, but here I just wanted to explain basic tracking in AE. I begin with a simple tutorial to reassure me. But It would be more complicated for the next ^^

  • anwar

    Hey Emilie,

    Great tut and your english was beautiful.

  • Facundo

    Hi.
    Very useful tut. The video is lovely.
    Tracking seems to be simple but then some problems appear tha could be a pain in the ass, for example the problem with the clone stamp tool. Thank you for that tip.
    I love tracking tuts. And your english is pretty clear and easy to understand. And your accent is so nice and sweet to hear.

    I’ll be waiting more tuts from you.

    Keep going

  • Facundo

    Hi again. I was looking for your page on Vimeo and couldn’t find it. Can you post a link?

  • Goolien

    Love this tut :D its simple and well explained :)

  • Felipe

    Buen tutorial lo que mas dificil me parece son las animaciones de las caras,pero en conjunto esta muy bien.

  • Feipe
  • http://www.edwardwesterhuis.com Edward Westerhuis

    J’ai apprendu beaucoup! Merci!

    The only difficult thing for me was I used the round brackets ( ) instead of the square brackets [ ]
    Once I watched at full res, I figured it out.

    Thanks

    Tu explique bien!

  • Sofia

    Great Tutorial! I´m so eager to try it

  • http://www.kalillenevado.com Kalille Nevado

    I love your tutorial and I am currently building one for my self. However, I am having a hard time doing the picture animation. How did you sync your voice with the PNG animation?

    • http://cargocollective.com/EmilieNicolas Emilie
      Author

      thanks. In fact I record the voice afterward, watching the final video :)

  • Leon

    Thanks for the great tutorial. I think you explain it very clearly. Please could you tell me how you made the png animation for the face? Thx

    • Emilie
      Author

      I made an animation in photoshop (as to create an animated gif for example). I draw it with my tablet. Afterward, I export it in png sequence.

  • Mark

    What’s the names of the songs in Love Rolls?

    • http://www.facebook.com/BangRangPeter Émilie Nicolas

      the music are old christmas songs : “rockin around the christmas tree” and “let it snow”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/artbox24 Jerwin Villanueva

    how did you bend the text in the rolling tissue?

    • http://www.facebook.com/BangRangPeter Émilie Nicolas

      You can just use in AE, Effects / distort / Mesh Warp :)

  • jpipon

    Y’aurait-il moyen de l’avoir en francais? :(

    • http://www.facebook.com/BangRangPeter Émilie Nicolas

      Non, désolé, mais je n’aurai pas vraiment le temps de faire une version française. :/

  • http://www.facebook.com/Filipeburns Nuno Rodrigues

    awesome :3

  • Ania

    Emilie, great tutorial! Please make more tutorials for us!